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Your Quotes for 17 April 2006 - Absence

On this day in 1194, King Richard I of England was crowned for the second time, due to an extended absence. Fans of the Robin Hood and Ivanhoe legends will recall this was the trip in which he lead the Third Crusade against Saladin and was held for ransom by Duke Leopold of Austria on his return, during which his brother Prince John seized the throne. But in reality, Richard was absent from England a great deal: He was raised in France and his holdings there were larger than England, he spent less than ten years of his life on English soil. Of his ten-year reign as king he spent only six months in England. So here's to Richard the Lionhearted, the absent king.

It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change.
     - Sidonie Gabrielle Claudine Colette, 1873 - 1954

Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches.
     - Colley Cibber, 1671 - 1757

In the absence of touching and being touched, people of all ages can sicken and grow touch starved.
     - Diane Ackerman, A Natural History of The Senses

Absence abates a moderate passion and intensifies a great one - as the wind blows out a candle but fans fire into flame.
     - François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
     - Henry Alfred Kissinger

Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
     - John Michael Crichton

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